Macedonia’s telecom regulator promotes mobile market competition with MVNOs The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia) has been a European Union (EU) candidate country since 2005. As part of the EU pre-accession process, the country has built closer economic ties with the Union which accounts for 60% of...

Hungary’s telcos look to expand cross-platform services As in many other markets in the region, in Hungary the number of fixed-lines, as also fixed-line revenue, has been affected by the changing consumer use of such services and by the trend for fixed-to-mobile substitution. Fixed-line operators have thus looked...

The provision of universal access to high-speed Internet remains the top priority of the program, followed by other digitization initiatives such as e-government, public e-services, and digital activation of society to promote digital competency and increase the usage of I

Hungary’s broadband market has benefited from intense infrastructure-based competition, with the result that broadband penetration is relatively high for the region. There is an extensive cable network competing against DSL services and a vibrant and rapidly expanding fibre sector. In May 2018 Liberty Global agreed...

Launched by the European Commission (EC) in mid-2008 the project allows citizens from one EU member state to access the e-government services of another EU member state via PC or mobile device, thereby A digital identity, dubbed e-residency, also began to be rolle